There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Forget about 'Going Viral' and 'Go Give Value'.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.